Download e-book for iPad: Acting Presidents: 100 Years of Plays about the Presidency by B. Altschuler

This publication seeks to fill a huge hole within the literature approximately fictional representations of presidents through learning greater than forty performs, written due to the fact 1900, that have had sought after productions on or off-Broadway or in one other significant city.

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s attractive, hideous and unpretentiously very important play [is] a shattering, intimate trip into remote information reviews. ”—Linda Winer, Newsday“An excessive and gripping new drama . . . the type of new play we desperately want: well-informed and unafraid of the world’s brutalities.

Anarchist [an/er-kist] n. 1. someone who opposes the authority of the nation. 2. an individual who motives illness or upheaval. three. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet’s new play approximately one lady who's positioned away for all times, and one other who's devoted to her rehabilitation. Students of Mamet won’t are looking to leave out it; i used to be engaged and forced all through.

“Murder on Capitol Hill” introduces novice sleuth, Carleton Sage. it's the first in a sequence of legal investigations through Reverend Sage from his Capitol Hill Church. in line with a precise personality, the book’s Carleton Sage is writer Joe Sanches’ personal construction. Sanches has released different thrillers “The Sacred rip-off” and “Beneath the steps” to be had on Amazon.

"A thought-provoking play approximately reminiscence, its corruption and our insistence that expertise support us outwit demise. "—The long island occasions "It's the type of event that retains unfolding within the brain lengthy after the play is over. "—Los Angeles TimesIn a destiny now not faraway from our current, Marjorie spends her time rewriting her prior in desire of her idealized stories, with aid from the intriguingly leading edge know-how that permits her to take action.

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